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Karlidag-Dennis, Ecem; McGrath, Simon; Stevenson, Howard – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article discusses the changes in basic education in Turkey, with a particular focus on religious education and its ramifications for the education system. The latest education reform, 4 + 4 + 4 (or 4+), the largest education reform in recent Turkish history, has brought radical changes to the school system regarding religious education. For…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Teacher Attitudes, Unions
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Wong, Ting-Hong – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Bernstein's theory of the pedagogic device has two under-developed elements as far as its treatments of evaluative rules are concerned. It has never explained the processes through which an assessment's hegemony is erected, and it overlooks the fact that evaluations can also be crucial apparatuses in social selection and exclusion. Using the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Educational Change
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Stambach, Amy – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
The author reviews three books that provide complementary and thought-provoking insights. The three books under review are: (1) "Reproducing class: education, neoliberalism, and the rise of the new middle class in Istanbul," by Henry J. Rutz and Erol M. Balkan; (2) "Technology, culture, family: influences on home life," by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Role of Education, Social Mobility